Santa Claus comes to town's festive craft fair

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was the theme at Nimble Fingers' recent craft fair.

 

As well as being packed with browsers and buyers, the Argyll Bowling Club event had a bumper number of 22 stallholders selling their wares, the most at a Nimble Fingers fair.

 

The group's scratch card-style raffle, with a £50 cash prize, was won by Margaret McMillan.

 

A different cause is chosen to receive the proceeds from the baking, raffle and tombola-type stalls at each Nimble Fingers craft fair.

 

The £500 proceeds from the festive fair are being donated to James McCorkindale's School of Dancing for a new platform for performing at Southend Highland Games.

 

Some of the dancers and their family members were busy in the kitchen during the craft fair serving tea, coffee and snacks to those who worked up an appetite browsing, buying and selling.

 

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As always, there was a wide range of crafts and produce on offer and, for the first time, Usborne children's books were for sale, thanks to new vendor Kerstin Blomkvist.

 

Photographer Robert Westerman also joined the fair, selling his beautiful landscape shots on canvas.

 

'It was such a lovely, friendly atmosphere with very happy crafters,' said a group spokesperson.

 

Nimble Fingers will be at the Co-op supermarket on Thursday December 15 where members will have gifts for sale as well as a raffle and a chance to guess the doll's birthday, the proceeds of which will help fund the group's running costs.